Cotton-cultivator.



J. J. GREEN. COTTON GULTIVATOR.

APPLICATION H'Lnn MAY 24, 1909.

933,977 Patented :Sept. 14, 1909.

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COTTON GULTIVATOE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 24, 1909.

Patented Sept. 14, 1909.

JAMES J. GREEN, 0F BREMEN, GEORGIA.

co'rToN-cUL'rIvAToRf Specification of Letters Patent. Patented S9611. 14-,- 1909.

Application filed May 24, 1909. Serial No. 498,000.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES J. Genes, a citizen of the United States of America, and,

a resident of Bremen, county of Haralsom; State of Georgia, having invented certain, new and useful Improvements in Cotton-l Cultivators, of which the following is a fu and clear specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which-.

Figure l is a plan view showing my cultivator arranged for cross cultivation. Fig.

2 is a vertical section on the line 2-2 of. Fig. 1. Fig. 3 a perspective view showing the cultivator adapted for row cultivation, the

intermediate fenders being removed. Figs. 4, 5 and 6 detail views hereinafter described.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple and strong ap aratus for cultivat ing cotton adapted to e converted from a row cultivator to a cross-row cultivator as. more fully hereinafter set forth.

The letter a designates the central beam, 5 a draft hook attached to the forward end thereof and 0 the handles attached to the rear end thereof. Pivoted by'a bolt d to the forward end of the beam, on the under side thereof, is a pair of bars 6 which extend out: wardly and rearwardly'from the beam and are adapted to be adjusted forwardly and backwardly by means of a pair of bars f arranged in the rear of and parallel therewith, these bars being pivoted at their'forward ends to the beam by a vertical bolt 9 and bein pivotally connected at their outer ends by links it to the bars 6. Each .of the bars f is braced by a bar '5 bolted rigidly to the outer end of said bar 7 and pivotally attached to the beam at its inner end by ,means of the aforesaid bolt g, a spacing block j being mounted on the beam and through which the bolt 9 passes, to give to the bars 2' a bracing function. To hold the swinging frames thus constructed in their adjusted positions I employ two rods in whose forward ends are pivotally attached to the upper bars 2' and whose rear ends are turned downwardly to form pins which are adapted to be engaged in any one of a series of holes Z in the beam, the beam being provided at one side with an extension piece or flange m for the reception of the left hand series of holes. By means of these devices the frames may be swung forwardly and backwardly to widenor narrow the implement, without affecting the parallelism of the frame bars a and f. The shanks of the 1 cultivating teeth a and the fender carrying spring arms 0 are attached to these bars. The extreme forward ends of these shanks are pivotally confinedto the under side of the bar 6 by a bar 37 which is clam ed to said bar 6 by rivets 9 whose heads are ormed into eyes 1' which stand above the upper surface of the bar 0. Pivots s of the shanks extenddown through the bar 6 and the bar p and the interposed'shank and are readily removable vertically and-whose upper ends are formed'into eye'; t which are in alinement with and ,lalternate with the eyes 1'. To confine the piuots s in place a removable lock rod u ---1n, horizontally through the permanent eyes 1: and the pivot eyes Z. By these meansill the shanks are pivotally connected by the bar 6 in such manner that they may be independently detached therefrom, and in order to provide for adjusting the fenders forw-ardl and backwardly with res ect to the cultivator teeth, the shanks of t e fenders areeach provided with a series of holes through any one of which the pivot 8 may be passed.

The shanks of the fenders and the'teeth are confined to the under faces of the rear bars' by means of loops to pivotally depending rom the bars f, the pivot being an ordi nary rivet as shown at the right hand end of Fig. 6 or an integral extension 3 of the loop, as shown at the left hand end of Fig. 6. The loops to are thus adapted to rotate on their pivots so that the shanks are free to vary their angle with respect to the bar f as the frame is adjusted forwardly or backwardly, so that at whatever angle the frames be adjusted the shanks of the teeth and the fenders will remain parallel to each other. A central fender 0 is attached to the beam at the forward end thereof by means of suitable clips 0 and 0 and a vertical bolt 0 but this central fender has no pivotal action.

It will be observed that for row cultivation all the side or supplemental fenders are removed leaving only the central fender while for cross-row cultivation these side fenders are put into place intermediate the teeth.

You will also observe that a feature of importance lies in the special means whereby withdraw upwardly the pivots a, where-' upon the shanks may be drawn rearwardly 3 is especially desirable in a cultivator of this out of the swiveled closed loops w. This "provision for readily removing and rein'sert:

ing the shanks of the cultivating implements type, as is obvious.

Havin thus fully described my invention, What I claim as neW, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

A cultivating implement comprising a cent-ral beam, a frame projecting from each side thereof and consisting of parallel bars pivotally attached to the beam, means for adjust.-

ing each of these frames forwardly and back- Wardly, a series ofupstanding permanent eye-bolts carried by the front barof each frame, a series of vertical pivots earried by each front bar and alternating with said eyebolts, and having eyes in valinement with the ning through each series of, eyes, a series of closed loops swiveled to each ofthe rear bars ing their shanks passed through said loops eyes of said eye-bolts a removable rod runof said frames, and soil working devices hav- 7 and detachably and pivotally connected to the front bars by the aforesaid pivots;

, In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses 

